Museum in the star
 The Stern House |
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| place | Warburg , Sternstrasse 35 |
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| opening | 1968 |
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| ISIL | DE-MUS-175817 |
The museum in the star is the city museum of the city of Warburg . It was founded in 1968 and is housed in Haus Stern , a former medieval aristocratic court in Warburg Neustadt. In 1988 the top floor was expanded as an exhibition and lecture room and the entire building was modernized for sole use as a museum and city archive.
museum
The museum is one of Warburg's most important cultural institutions. Around 10 temporary exhibitions on topics from history and art are held here every year, and lectures and concerts take place in the Museum im Stern.
Its permanent exhibition is divided into the departments
- Prehistory and early history with the representation of early traces of settlement in the region, ceramic settlement finds and the 3.8 t heavy stone from Warburg, part of a Neolithic grave near Hohenwepel from the 4th millennium BC. Chr.
- City history with a representation of the city's foundation and development, documentation of excavations on the Hüffert and on the Burgberg, reconstruction drawings of city fortifications, town halls and town houses in the medieval state, a model of the former Hardehausen monastery and documentation on the former Warburg synagogue .
- Economic history with facilities for a complete shoemaker's workshop and documentation on postal and railway history and
- Art history with works by the Warburg goldsmith and silversmith and copper engraver Antonius Eisenhoit , the Nörde architect Johann Conrad Schlaun and the painters Gottfried Beyer , Lorenz Humburg , Hans Kohlschein , Josef Kohlschein , Josef Sauerland , Wisa von Westphalen and Heinrich Holtgreve.
There is also an art library with works by Günter Grass , Marcel Marceau , Edgar Schlubach , Alfons Holtgreve and other artists.
City Archives
The city archive has important medieval holdings. It contains documents for the founding and constitution of the city such as the Groten Breff from 1436 and a Bible by Hans Grüninger from 1485 from the property of the former Dominican monastery in Warburg and others. a.
literature
- Mürmann, Franz (1988): The golden star . Warburg: Museum Association Warburg. (= Series of publications of the Museum Association Warburg 1).
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Coordinates: 51 ° 29 ′ 15.8 ″ N , 9 ° 8 ′ 52 ″ E